Bitachon 193 - Learn Torah Get Bitachon

you're listening to the 193rd edition of the podcast and we're going back to from rund into H him we're going to read a p together in chapter per Zion and I'd like to actually read from the beginning of the of the peric it's actually a very long peric 72 PUK him long and it talks all about am Israel being in Egypt which we're reading about in the par now all about is being there and then going out with Miracles and wonders and signs and then going through the midbar going through the Wilderness and all of the Miracles hasm did for us then so it focuses very much on something which it's interesting to try to understand and perhaps get some kind of answers to the day why we talk about it so much we talk about the Exodus from Egypt come back to it every year reading the story in the but also every week we say every day in in we talk about it's an obligation to remember it constantly let's talk about it in regards to what does it look like so this is again this poem was written by listen my nation to my turn your ears towards the words of my mouth going to give you an analogy I'm going to express ideas that you need to unravel that go back to Days of your that which we heard and we know the stories that they told us our forefathers we the last generation the most recent generation perhaps we could say we can't turn away from the stories that we heard we need to look at what happened to them in order to understand and the power and the Wonders that hasm did for us if we want to know how to deal with today we need to look back at yesterday God gave a testimony to Jacob gave us the for the people of Israel gave it to us to give over to our children or to their children they were to give it to their children so that the most recent generation this applied in the time of the times of King David and it applies to us 3,000 years later [Music] so that the children who are born will know they when they get up they'll talk they'll talk about this and they'll tell it over to their children so we need to recognize what happened in the past to give it over to our kids and we need to give it over in such a way that they give it over to their children we have a m we have a tradition here's our POS we're going to speak about today and they will place in God their trust klam is an interesting word we'll see what it means but for certainly for our purposes no matter how you understand it it means when we look back and we see what's happened in the past we look back at the Miracles has performed for us in Egypt going out of Egypt in the wilderness the Mir miraculous Mana giving of the T Etc we can't ever forget the things that God did for us and that will motivate us to keep hashem's Commandments to do exactly that which God requests so let's see together in the sa herefor that he brings first he brings what does it mean they will place in hasem their trust there's a difference of opinion between two interestingly there's two but there's three opinions it's kind of funny but the first aspect the first understanding of the word KLA means their thoughts they placed they directed their thoughts towards Hashem one says their foolishness which will hopefully understand what means well you see that the word which is the root of the word klam means their foolishness is a fool the fool folds his arms folds his hands and one says that it means that they Place their trust in says that if a person places his trust in Gold so he's headed for a disaster but let's for a moment just to understand what is it what could it mean I place my foolishness in hashem's hands as it were so it's important to understand as we'll see that everything that a person does person's thoughts the thoughts that I think sometimes like they're mine and sometimes Hashem puts thoughts in my head and the foolishness that I do the the very acts that I look at and I say what a mistake I made how how how did I do that how did I think that a person who's knows that that's also from hasem the foolishness is also from the mistakes that I've made the third aspect is and if we go on the if we go on the line that we're we're explaining so sometimes I I it's illogical for me to trust in Hashem but somehow I manage to and sometimes I just can't I I have every reason to trust in hashm and I I just can't and even that is in hashem's hands as well of course we have but sometimes we don't it's important to know that it's important to come in knowing that so means according to the I place I recognize that it's Hashem who gives me my thoughts or my foolishness or my the that's explains that it means that I recognize that it's Hashem who's in my thoughts it's AEM who directs my foolishness it's AEM who directs my says a beautiful thing he says something beautiful about the nature of am Isel when we do hashem's will sometimes we seem like fools this kind of word this word kill which means a fool speaks of somebody who holds on stubbornly to his opinions even though he doesn't have anything to prove that he's correct he just I'm so sure I'm right even though I can't prove it he doesn't have any proofs to his opinion so now this when a person is foolish when a person is stubborn in something that's wrong so that's bad right that's called foolishness but when it comes to someone who's who fears heaven and because of that in a certain way he acts like a fool have a line in one of my songs I'd rather be a fool than not believe from my friend who we pen named dur kib rather be a fool than not believe means there's a foolishness in my belief that if you look at it objectively and by the standards of the world it doesn't make sense what I'm saying it doesn't make sense how I'm thinking it doesn't make sense that I'm going to do this particular thing so it indicates a kind of trust in hasem that's so strong that all the winds in the world and I don't know if you can see the the swaying of the trees right now but it's pretty windy here today all the winds in the world cannot cannot affect the person they can't move the person all of the words the the convincing of the of those who make fun of him doesn't move him that's how Jew lives in the face of the rest of the nations of the world what you crazy you're giving a bris to a eight eight day old baby are you are you insane one day at work you're not going to one day a week you're not going to work are you crazy you got to work every day once a every seven years for a whole year you're not going to work your field you're out of your mind Etc many things in the where it's built into the Mitzvah that we trust in hashm we have no choice it's not there's no options here and the person stands in the face of of the of the nations of the world who make fun of him like a fool he looks like a fool calling and he continues with that faith without proof that this is right this is what we do this is how it's done that's reverse unbelievable the rad says klam what does klam mean says their faith their trust they won't forget that they heard they will mention it constantly so it's not forgotten from their mouths they're always talking look at all of the Miracles Hashem performed for me the M that he gave us he's going to give it to us again every single day Hashem is going to provide me with my needs and in this way they will believe inam and in his and they will keep his Commandments that's the and we've spoken about this many times that it's essential to look back at my life and see all the times that hasm has helped me but that's not just true as an individual it's true as a nation Isel as a nation we look back and we speak about aem's wonders for the Miracles he's performed for us have to go back so far can look back to the to our times Amazing fact that 7.7 million Jews are back in a Israel's constantly protecting us doesn't mean we don't go through hard times but he's constantly helping us this motivates us when we recognize how hm is taking care of us we feel obligated we feel appreciative we want to do something for the one who's doing so much for us we want to keep his Commandments says the we won't trust in the heavens and in their hosts I don't look to the to Nature it seems like Things are Written in the Stars it seems like there's fate it seems like there's so many efforts we can put in that's going to give us success that's not how we do things they won't forget our P says that which has done that which is US need to think about I need to I need to meditate on contemplate the years of generations look back through history had challenges and difficulties we know about that we think about that but how how did we get here how did we get through it all how many times were there golden times so we keep's Commandments says all 72 go through the entire chapter look at it chapter 78 Mr next week we're going to speak about another puzz in this chapter but the entire mismar the whole chapter of is to strengthen us to to give us to to get our moving to give us confidence inm and to to give us a warning against the opposite of not having enough the beginning it says listen my nation to my listen to the words of my mouth some as we saw at the beginning says that God established gave us the he gave us the experiences that we had going out of Egypt going through the Wilderness taking care care of us so that we would be able to tell this to our kids this is such a interesting point you know we go through life and we have experiences personally we have challenges we have salvations and one of the reasons that we have this every night my kids say to me as I put them to bed tell me a story and I tell them about sometimes I make up a story but sometimes I tell them about my my childhood and how even as a little kid I wanted to live in Israel and how that came to be how I visited or about being in the Miami Boys Choir what it was like but the experiences that we've had are for us to know about and for our children to know about so he brings the rest of theuk they'll put their faith in as a result they won't forget what has done they'll keep the Commandments in the next p which we didn't read they won't be like previous generations their s there have been times did not remember what happened did not remember the kindness hasm did for us and as a result we lost our faith and we turned away from hasm understand this this teaching the is based on WE you want to understand we're talking about this for for almost six years about five and a half years we're talking about so 2019 you want to know what is why is this so important this is the foundation of the we're going to see from the the entire purpose of the is so that we should have but it's both ways we need to be talking in order to keep the T we need to be talking we need this faith we need to to be confident and connected to in order to learn in order to keep is what helps us to keep the we don't have then we turn we turn away from the person's faith is blemished this is talking about somebody who throws away his confidence in hem throws away his his belief in hem not like somebody who has the be of the the and those like them it's not so clear to me exactly what he's saying but I believe that what he's trying to say is that it doesn't mean I have to have perfect it doesn't mean that I'm always going to be in that state I'm not you know a Nai who speaks to God it's you know it's kind of hard not to have you know he's there he speaking to him promises you something explicitly but you don't have to have that level in order to stay on the path in order to keep the T there's obviously Baseline level there's a higher level which we're all striving for but no matter what it's that's the foundation for us to be able to keep the T because many times it's a challenge how's it going to work out how's it going to if I do this if I if I want to learn in the morning if I want to sit and learn uh that time I could be spending making money know how many times how many questions do we have that have to do with our it's that helps us to be able to do this to be able to do things right bring from The Grow says we're to place our faith on he connects the twoim that the T the foundation of the T is God gives us the the the whole the foundation is for what why why was the given to what's the purpose of it what is the what is the end goal the end goal is that we should place our faith in hasem that we should trust in that we should have a relationship with knowing that he's taking care of us the P says that as a result of the previous P which talks about giving us the T that is why we have that's why we place our trust on and also to tell our kids that's what it says afterwards that the later generations should know says the the main thing is to have absolute complete faith in hm includes all of the like the end of the says if you have and you don't forget all the things hm has done for you you'll keep the the the Mitzvah you keep the Commandments brings on the bottom in in a note from M I believe this is Cutler my rash's rashash it comes out of the gr an amazing thing and I don't know if I've mentioned this but whena said on numerous occasions that at at a certain point when they were in Yesa by Cutler so they asked him to learn with them a small group any topic that he wants and what he pulled out what was the topic that he pulled out he spoke to them and he learned with them let's see what says about comes out an amazing novelty that not only is be talk something that helps me be able to keep the tah as we saw from the masem you say and it's a foundation the purpose of the is a tool a means to get to the end point which is through the T that's how you get to complete faith in hasem and that is the goal that's what we're after someone asks you what's the point of being a Jew this is itely the main reason that was given to us is so that we put our faith in and he continues and speaks about the fact what is the greatness of the specifically that the when a person has this mid he has this attribute of complete faith in even though of course a person needs it in order to be able to keep the Torah and the Commandments he says something very important he says that when I have a true understanding of reality when I understand that Hashem protects me and that that's absolutely true that becomes my reality that becomes the reality I experience if I know hasm protects me and takes care of me he does he will it's it's more becomes more concrete like it says in the we put our faith on H and then the result is that we're able better to keep the the mitzah as we said at the beginning through our belief in hasem we have no doubt that we're not making a mistake we're doing if we're doing it that which is right will take care of us and we'll have all of our needs met thanks so much for for listening we'll see you again next time